Women's bodies : discipline and transgression / edited by Jane Arthurs and Jean Grimshaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Arthurs, Jane.

Grimshaw, Jean.

Series:

Sexual Politics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Body image.

Feminine beauty (Aesthetics).

Women--Psychology.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Cassell, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The articles in this volume consider the prevailing standards of feminine decorum, and how these are being played with and challenged by various media. This is a collection of essays which focuses on the representation of women's bodies in historical and contemporary cultures. It discusses recent books on the subject, and compares the two different approaches to the body adopted by the soft-porn magazine ""For Women"", and the women's monthly ""Cosmopolitan"". It also examines TV cult figures, such as the ""comic body"" exemplified by comedienne Joe Brand, and situation comedies such as ""Abso

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 2. Don't Touch Me (I'm Electric): On Gender and Sensation in Modernity; 3. Temporality, Materiality: Towards a Body in Time; 4. Racializing Femininity; 5. Working out with Merleau-Ponty; 6. 'Doing Looks': Women, Appearance and Mental Health; 7. Revolting Women: The Body in Comic Performance; 8. Talking Dirty in For Women Magazine; 9. The Bearded Lesbian; 10. The Girls Can't Hack It: The Changing Status of the Female Body in Representations of New Technology; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612012716

9781282012714

1282012711

9781441104526

1441104526

OCLC:

318286409